Method of making union garments.



W. MARLOW.

METHOD OF MAKING UNION GARMENTS. APPLICATION FILED JULY a, 1913.

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Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

' 9-8. This gives two WILLIAM MARLOW,

COMPANY, '15 CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

METHOD OF MAKING UNION GARMENTS. I

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 23, 1915.

Application filed July 8, 1913. Serial No. 777,825.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM MARLOW, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, county ofQueens, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Methods of Making Union Garments, of which the followingis aspecification.

My invention has for its object a method of making union garmentswhereby they may be easily, cheaply and simply manufactured, and hasparticular reference to the manufacture thereof from tubular knittedfabrics.

A further object of my invention is a method of making a garment of theclass described, in which horizontal seams shall be as nearly aspossible eliminated, and the number of seams greatly reduced.

A further object of my invention is to produce a garment which shall becompletely closed in front and at the same time have overlapping flapsat the back, so made that the garment will tend In the drawingsaccompanying my specification, I have shown in Figure 1 a front view ofmy improved garment. and in Fig. 2 a back view thereof. In Fig. 3 I haveshown, in a more or less diagrammatic way, the method of cutting thetube used.

Referring to Fig. 1. it will be seen that the garment is dividedvertically Or longitudinally by a seam 12, which extends from the neckto the crotch.

Referring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that the seams at the back are ahorizontal seam, 34, extending across the middle of the back andsecuring the flaps to the body of the garment, and a vertical seam, 5-6,extending from the neck to the horizontal or transverse seam. V

In carrying out my improved method,-I take a tube of knitted material,such as that ordinarily produc/ad upon a cylinder knitting machine, andmake two transverse cuts, 7-8 and 910, therein. These transverse cutsare joined by a longitudinal cut, L-shaped pieces, of which one corneris removed by a long diagonal cut, 9- 11 and 8-42. The correspondingcorners of the L-shaped pieces at the back of the tube are cut off as at13-44 Copies of this patent may be obtained for to remain closed.

each side of the center back seam,

The piecesthus shaped are reoverlapped so that the front seam, 12, isformed at the'juncture of edges 98 of both pieces, and of edges 911 withedges 8- 12, the crotch being formed where the points 11 and 12 meet. Byreason of the diagonal form of edges 8-12 and 91'1, the garment is givena flare at the bottom, thus properly shaping it. In reversing one of theL-shaped pieces with reference to the other, the flaps included withinthe lines 12,16, 15, 8 and 14:, 13, 9 and 11, overlap, thus formingoverlapping flaps at the back of the garment. These flaps are securedtogether, and to the body of the garment, by sewing their upper edges,15-8 and 9-13, together and to the and 15 -16. versed and 015' NEW YORK,N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO STANDARD KNITTING MILLS body of the garment by thehorizontal seam 3-4.

I am aware that the exact method described may be varied withoutdeparting from the spiritof my invention, and I therefore do not intendto confine myself to the exact form shown and described.

\Vhat I claim is:

The method of making a union garment from a piece of tubular fabricwhich consists in forming two transverse cuts extending inwardly atright angles from the edges to the center on one side of the tube,forming two oppositely inclined cuts from the center to the outer edgeson the other side of the tube, forming a longitudinal cut on both sidesof the tube joining the transverse cut and apices of the inclined cuts,reversing the portions so cut, oining the inclined cuts and longitudinalcuts on that side of the tube to form a single continuous straight frontseam running from the crotch to the neck opening, joining thelongitudinal cuts on the other side to form a central back seam,overlapping the transverse cuts on and joining the edge of eachtransverse cut to the opposite portion by a single horizontal seam.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses this 7th day of July, 1913.

, \VILLIAM MARLOW.

Witnesses:

\VALTER S. Jones, WILLIAM M. EARL.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

